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‘Then again, now that I'm spending my days obsessing about a man I've more or less invented, I'm hardly one to cast aspersions on other people's productivity.’

‘We have also a tendency in the media for obsessing about stories.’

‘I haven't seen people be so obsessed and upset in my lifetime - you know, about everything.’

‘I miss talking about where my life is heading, what my thoughts are, the state of my relationships, things I'm obsessing about, things that inspire me.’

‘I will eventually stop obsessing about this enough to write about something else.’

‘Cady begins to be chuffed by her new status; she grows to like obsessing about food, looks and weight and is secretly thrilled by her licence to be bitchy and cruel.’

‘If you look at London and the Olympic bid, what they are obsessing about, quite rightly, is infrastructure: accommodation and transport.’

‘Look at all of the time I've wasted in my life obsessing about my weight and what to eat or whether or not I'm exercising enough.’

‘I am not obsessing about it, not more than I ever did anyway.’

‘What would I be thinking if I wasn't obsessing about whether I'd been overheard gossiping and, if so, whether it was going to ruin my or someone else's life?’

‘Only then will we be able to stop obsessing about what's wrong and begin to appreciate what's right.’

‘I was an editor of the school newspaper, acting in the spring play, obsessing about which girls I liked, talking Marx and Dostoevsky with my classmates.’

‘He was utterly obsessed of course and had a splendid ego but he's a master artist.’

‘But I have decided that I am doing myself no favors obsessing about it, which I have been doing.’

‘They're not very accurate as a detailed performance indicator and universities shouldn't waste too much time obsessing about rankings.’

‘So how come I'm sitting here, at almost 40 years old, still obsessing about it?’

‘The President made a lot of mistakes last week, but most of his critics are making an even bigger one now by obsessing about what he said and did.’

‘The fact that this question has been raised shows how obsessed people are with the plant.’

‘Right now, you may have noticed, I'm obsessing about Plácido.’

‘If I didn't ‘waste’ emotion obsessing about things, I'd like to think this blog would be much different than it is now.’

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘haunt, possess’, referring to an evil spirit): from Latin obsess- ‘besieged’, from the verb obsidere, from ob- ‘opposite’ + sedere ‘sit’. The current sense dates from the late 19th century.